We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

To boost food production for a rapidly growing global population, crop yields must
significantly increase. One of the avenues being recently explored is the improvement of …

Abstract In 2019, Her Majesty's Treasury (UK) commissioned Sir Partha Dasgupta, an
economist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University to produce an independent …

Transferring the knowledge bases between related species may assist in enlarging the yield
potential of crop plants. Being cereals, rice and wheat share a high level of gene …

ABSTRACT Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a model C4 cereal for both basic and
applied research. It has most of the traits of a model plant species: large embryos that are …

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary stream of science which deals with the synthesis and
application of nanoparticles (NPs) ranging from 1 to 100 nm. Nanotechnology is seen as a …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been cultivated as an important cereal crop for more than 9,000
years and more than half of the world's population depend on rice as it is their primary …

In productive oil palm plantation areas, poor vegetation is generally caused by low light
intensity. This condition causes excessive erosion and decreases soil fertility. One of the …

C4 plants exhibit significantly higher photosynthetic, water and nutrient use efficiency
compared with C3 plants. Kranz anatomy is associated with many C4 plants in which bundle …

C4 photosynthesis is the primary mode of carbon capture and drives productivity in several
major food crops and bioenergy grasses. Gains in productivity associated with C4 …